Go to Your Room!: Donald starts a fight with James, to which Thomas arrives to break them up, and orders the latter with this trope.Freudian Trio: Donald is Id, Thomas is Ego and James is Superego.Later in the film James sits alone in the tower, seemingly unaware of a pool of mercury near his feet. James informs Donald to be careful around a mercury leak in the lighthouse, as exposure can drive a man mad.Thomas gives Donald an unusually detailed description of how woolding can be used as a torture device.His murder of Donald is the final straw, and he chooses to join him in the sea after disposing of his body there. Driven to Suicide: James is left broken and insane by the sudden violence that has engulfed him, and cannot comprehend returning to his family.Thomas is left alone in the sea, his fate unknown. Unable to kill himself by drowning, he needs Thomas to help him keep his head below the water. Downer Ending: After Donald dies and his body is thrown to the sea, James says he can't live with his actions and decides to end his life.Decoy Protagonist: The three main characters are a bitter old man, a self-centred youth, and a strapping, good-natured family man.Death of a Child: One of the invaders that James kills turns out to be a young boy and he is distraught by it.Cruel and Unusual Death: Donald crushes the head of one of the invaders, Locke, by repeatedly knotting a length of rope around it.Burial at Sea: A lot people die and are disposed of in the sea around the lighthouse.Donald asks him why, to which Thomas replies, "Because I told you to." Because I Said So: Donald finds the body of a man at the bottom of the shore, and Thomas tells him to go down and check on the situation.By the time he finally busts the door down, he sees that James has already strangled Donald. The camera then cuts to Thomas as he struggles to get out of the locked pantry as scuffling noises are heard. Battle Discretion Shot: After getting Thomas out of the way, James turns back with murderous intent towards Donald, who suddenly becomes terrified.Ambiguous Situation: Was James driven mad purely by his accidental killing of the young boy, or was he suffering from mercury poisoning? Or both?. All we know is that he is never heard from him again, but whether he followed James into the sea, or made off alone with the gold is left open to interpretation. Ambiguous Ending: Thomas' ultimate fate is not revealed.One day, a man washes ashore with a mysterious chest and things go south. In the movie, three men, Donald (Connor Swindells), James ( Gerard Butler) and Thomas ( Peter Mullan) are sent to take care of a lighthouse. The movie is based on the real-life case of The Flannan Isles Mystery, concerning the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers under strange circumstances. The Vanishing is a 2018 British thriller directed by Kristoffer Nyholm.
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